A Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels (Volume 3) - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... 19. And he said unto him: 19. Kat sir.sv autw: 'Avajri? Arise, and go thy way: thy xopsuou:-q xfjrt? aou aiaw.iv as. faith hath made thee whole. In verse eleven 8t«t fteo-ov is supported by B, L, Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort; other authorities have ava fieaov. This event in the life of Jesus is only narrated by St. Luke. The reason may be that this grateful Samaritan is a representative of the Gentile races. We are persuaded that the Sta fieaov indicates that the journey of the Lord lay between the two provinces, Samaria and Galilee. After the raising of Lazarus the Lord did not journey up into Galilee again. There are both profane and Scriptural precedents for the sense we give to the phrase, and our opinion is supported by Schegg, Schanz, Fillion, Wetstein, Keil, Weiss and Knabenbauer. The present event is like to the cure of the leper recorded by St. Matthew VIII. 2-4; Luke V. 12-16. The chief difference is that in the former account there was but one leper, here there are ten lepers. In our Commentary on the former passages we have described leprosy. We have only to speak here of some special features of the present event. The lepers stand afar off, as they were forbidden to approach their fellow man. The Rabbi Johannan taught that the leper was forbidden to approach within a distance of four cubits of any one not infected, if the leper is on the windward side; but Rabbi Simeon extended the distance to a hundred cubits. The Mosaic Law did not fix the distance, but limited itself to a general prohibition to approach. Though the fiercest hatred existed between Jew and Samaritan, we find in this group of lepers a Samaritan with the Jews. Their wretched condition has extinguished in them the national hatred, and had driven them to seek one another'...

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